单词 | to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke |
释义 | > as lemmasto come to, end in, vanish into, smoke g. to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke, to come to nothing, be unrealized, be without result. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or come to nothing forworthc1000 folda1250 quailc1450 fruster?a1513 to come to nothing1523 to give out?1523 to fall to the ground?1526 quealc1530 to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke1604 intercide1637 to fall to dirt1670 to go off1740 to fall through1770 to fall apart1833 collapse1838 to run into the sand (also, now less commonly, sands)1872 to blow up1934 to blow out1939 1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 184 Their subtill deuises are come to smoake. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 44 The ill successe of the Queenes affaires (whose..Royall Army they had seene vanish into smoke). 1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1720) I. 470 Thus ended in Smoke the whole Negotiation. 1704 Coll. Voy. & Trav. III. 699/2 His Designs vanished into Smoke. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 52 I take it for granted, this whole affair will end in smoke. 1853 Mrs. Carlyle in New Lett. & Mem. II. 68 One might let him scheme and talk, hoping it might all end in smoke. < as lemmas |
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